Dirt Nap Chase

For most people, keeping on schedule with a madcap plan for suicide via a Cadillac, duct tape, and a garden hose, would be simple. For Chase Murdock, "simple" becomes very complex, exacerbated by an addiction to irreverence and chronic self doubt. At sixty years old, divorced, childless, unemployed for the third time in ten years, still annoyed by his mandatory Vietnam tour of the Mekong Delta courtesy of the US Army, and irritated by a sporadic prostate problem, the hapless Murdock detests the idea of navigating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. He obsesses his friends will remember him as a diapered vegetable in a nursing home, drooling, mumbling, and subsisting for the next forced feeding. Rather than go quietly, he confides his exit strategy to his best friend, whose camaraderie not only derails his plan, but unleashes a rapid string of events, forcing him to face his ultimate resolution.